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I've started using priorities to rank actions. In TR1, I used to do this using topics, which worked pretty well, but it meant that I couldn't use topics for their intended purpose. Switching to priorities has highlighted a few issues for me, though:

- I use "export actions (text)" every day to print short tasklists. I wish that priority was included as a export filter criterion, so I could print only actions with a priority of "today", for example.

- I wish I could color code by priority (I know this risks conflicts for color-coding by topic. There could be a hierarchy for resolving them, if that's not too complicated)

- I wish there were a right-click menu for actions, the way there is for projects. It could let us quickly re-assign the context, topic, priority, or time for a task. This would be especially nice for those who like to push down the details pane for a less cluttered look when doing daily action prioritizations.

That's all I have. Thanks again for building such a great tool!

Dan Young
Austin, TX

We need to re-work the export and reports functionality to include the new fields added for 2.0. This will be our priority once the delta version for Linux is out.

Colour code for priority - will add to the list

action right-click menu: there is one. We will need to add change priority, time or energy operation. Change Topic and Context already exists.

By the way, as you are re-working your topic, if you delete a topic which has been used, you get the option to choose a replacement topic.

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Claire
ThinkingRock Analyst and Tester

Hi Claire,

Thanks for the quick response.



That would be great! Thanks.

What I meant to suggest, though, was adding a right-click menu when you are in action view. You're right that there is a right-click menu on the action in the project treeview.

When I am in action view for my weekly review, I like seeing the project treeview and the action details. When I am doing my daily scan to prioritize and build my shortlist, though, I am going really fast and just touching each action long enough to evaluate whether I need to do it today. So I hide the project treeview and action details to keep the interface streamlined and to keep myself from getting sidetracked. However, I then can't change the priority of a task! So it would help me considerably to have a right-click menu available from the action view.

That's maybe more info than you needed!

Thanks again for the great product. I've donated, and I'll be happy to stay a customer when you transition into fee-for-service model.

Sometimes after my TR has been open for awhile, I'll go to an Action and although its Priority is properly displayed in the Priority Column of the upper Action Table, the Priority Pull-down Menu is not visible/available in the lower-right Action Pane, so I can't change the priority. Quitting and re-launching fixes this, but then it can recur randomly later.

It would be nice if there were a blank option in the priority pull-down (or something like that).

Here are the priorities that I've defined:

Today
Next two days
This week

I use these for designating certain actions for high-priority attention. Only about 10% of my actions get a priority set, all the rest have the default value of blank.

I found that when I decide to de-prioritize something rather than do it, there's no blank value available from the pull-down. So I defined "none" as a priority value. The only thing is that if I have priority set to blank, TR treats that as different than priority set to "none"

This isn't high-priority, just something that would be nice.

Dan